Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

When I receive notification of a new PSA, I immediately go to their New Affiliate Notification Page and click on their Affiliate Snapshot Page at https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateSnapshot?sfiid=XXXXXX. At the bottom of this page you can send a personal Welcome email to the Affiliate. You can use the SFI default or customize one of your own. I personally send a customized email, as I know they are a little overwhelmed when they first join and I give them a few tips on how to get started on their SFI business journey.

I of course include them in all my Group Team emails/Newsletters when I send them out, usually each Sunday, the start of the SFI workweek. However, these are more directed toward providing new SFI information, motivation to get their SFI business moving forward and reminding them of the various tasks that need to be done each day.

To date, this method has worked very well for me. Even though I do not get a lot of every day feedback, I do get 5 star Sponsor/Co-Sponsor ratings with positive comments each month.

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When I receive notification of a new PSA, I immediately go to their New Affiliate Notification Page and click on their Affiliate Snapshot Page at https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateSnapshot?sfiid=XXXXXX. At the bottom of this page you can send a personal Welcome email to the Affiliate. You can use the SFI default or customize one of your own. I personally send a customized email, as I know they are a little overwhelmed when they first join and I give them a few tips on how to get started on their SFI
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Affiliate since: 05/16/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Velma's 12 other Ask SC answers

I believe IT IS worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSA's, even though it is still vital to send out group mailing to all your downline.

The group mailing addresses the team as a whole generally, where you try to get the team motivated into action, by being an AWESOME sponsor.

When you send an individual letter, it makes the person feel special, and they will feel that you really care for them and what they do.

When my upline send me an email, and deal with my issues on a personal level, it is telling me that they are interested in my success, as we all know that we cannot be successful if our downline in left in the cold. That is why duplication is so important in this business.


They say that first impression counts, and to receive a welcome letter personally from an upline is speaking volumes. That will make any individual want to take action, if they believe in their ability to be a success in SFI.

I hope this helps you in some way.
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I believe IT IS worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSA's, even though it is still vital to send out group mailing to all your downline.

The group mailing addresses the team as a whole generally, where you try to get the team motivated into action, by being an AWESOME sponsor.

When you send an individual letter, it makes the person feel special, and they will feel that you really care for them and what they do.

When my upline send me an email, and
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Affiliate since: 11/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Robert's 6 other Ask SC answers

When a new PSA arrives, it's best to extend a personal welcome with a greeting letter or welcoming E-card to introduce yourself, and let them know they have arrived at a good place of business, and that you are there to offer your free services as their sponsor to assist them with any needs they may have.

Also, it is good to follow up with a few more contacts during the first week to share more details about the SFI program and to guide them around the Affiliate Center so they do not get lost or confused. You take them by the hand the first week, or weeks, till they build enough confidence to start walking through the program on their own.

Then continue to send out your weekly News Letters in the group mailings to provide new and fresh content about the program and to share more tips and ideas with your new PSAs and your existing downline.

Personal welcoming letters are more specific and person to person communication, and group mailings are more general and addresses a wider audience.















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When a new PSA arrives, it's best to extend a personal welcome with a greeting letter or welcoming E-card to introduce yourself, and let them know they have arrived at a good place of business, and that you are there to offer your free services as their sponsor to assist them with any needs they may have.

Also, it is good to follow up with a few more contacts during the first week to share more details about the SFI program and to guide them around the Affiliate Center so they do not get
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Affiliate since: 05/07/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Paul's 35 other Ask SC answers

It is not only worthwhile, it is essential! The personal touch by calling the Affiliate on his / her name does make a difference. You want the new members to be part of your downline family, and you should welcome them as individuals.

Use the group mailing for things such as "Team News", launch of products or informational detail, like explaining the benefits of Wave 3 Membership.

I have found the best results by individual welcoming, and then for the first couple of weeks, check their VP ledgers, and follow up with messages to assist them to understand the basic actions of SFI. Keep it personal and relevant to the need of the specific affiliate. You will not be able to address this properly in group mails.

This is sound advice, as it was tested, and found to be working.
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It is not only worthwhile, it is essential! The personal touch by calling the Affiliate on his / her name does make a difference. You want the new members to be part of your downline family, and you should welcome them as individuals.

Use the group mailing for things such as "Team News", launch of products or informational detail, like explaining the benefits of Wave 3 Membership.

I have found the best results by individual welcoming, and then for the first couple
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Affiliate since: 01/06/2012, Power Rank: 419 | Read Anup Kumar's 203 other Ask SC answers

Welcome letter and Group Mailing – both are different and having separate characteristic

A welcome letter proves your appearance, identity, trustworthy that you are a human being not a robot, fake or spam to the new comers those who are coming to join SFI on your invitation and through your gateway link

So you should send a Welcome letter immediately after getting notification from SFI to your new PSA/CSAs without delay to introduce yourself , explain a short description of SFI and with an initial instruction to get started in which he/she can completed their affiliate profile, take preparation for Ready to Go further

In this regard you can prepare the letter prior, copy paste and save the letter to the Welcome letter box to click affiliate snapshot of any affiliate from your Genealogy. You may also change a little bit for your CSAs, if necessary or whichever you think fit

The topic of Group Mailing will come after sending Welcome letter to your new PSA/CSAs in which you can able to clarify about SFI/TC, your plan, program in details. With the help of Group Mail you can discuss your future plan, about latest news of SFI with your team members in brief time to time

Remember Welcome letter for one time but Group Mails for several times

So send individual Welcome letter than Group Mail to your new prospect is must. Hope I could able to clear your views

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Welcome letter and Group Mailing – both are different and having separate characteristic

A welcome letter proves your appearance, identity, trustworthy that you are a human being not a robot, fake or spam to the new comers those who are coming to join SFI on your invitation and through your gateway link

So you should send a Welcome letter immediately after getting notification from SFI to your new PSA/CSAs without delay to introduce yourself , explain a short description of
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Affiliate since: 10/17/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read BELINDA's 36 other Ask SC answers

I believe there is a use for both individual and group mailings of a Welcome Letter. The most important thing is to make contact in the first 24 hours after sign-up. When I receive notice of a sign-up, I send out an e-mail and/or E-Card. If I have a large number coming in a given 24 hour period, like from an auction win or TC purchase, I find sending a group mailing less time consuming. With the correct use of words, even a group mail can come off as personal. Filters in your genealogy can insure that only the new PSAs receive this Welcome message. In either type of mailing, I let the new PSAs know who I am (by name and as their SFI sponsor); I welcome them personally to my SFI team; inform them of the Fast Track badge and how it is earned; a note about E365; and lastly my contact info and an encouragement to contact me with any concerns/questions that they might have.
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I believe there is a use for both individual and group mailings of a Welcome Letter. The most important thing is to make contact in the first 24 hours after sign-up. When I receive notice of a sign-up, I send out an e-mail and/or E-Card. If I have a large number coming in a given 24 hour period, like from an auction win or TC purchase, I find sending a group mailing less time consuming. With the correct use of words, even a group mail can come off as personal. Filters in your genealogy can insure
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Affiliate since: 07/28/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ingrid 's 138 other Ask SC answers

Individual and group mailings are both worthwhile and useful. Each has its advantages. It is important and worthwhile that the first piece of communication to your affiliates should be individual. New affiliates need to feel welcome and encouraged. They need support that they have made a good decision.

You can prepare your letters and have them saved so that as you receive a new affiliate the letter goes automatically to that individual. In this way, it does not matter if you have 2 new affiliates or a few hundred. Just take the time to set it up initially.

Use e-cards to encourage them as they progress. This tool is wonderful for helping the affiliate along. Though it may be a tedious exercise to send out an e-card to everyone, they are most effective. You can send to those who are making the extra effort or who are doing best. Your affiliate will recognize the thought that went into sending it.

Group mailing has its advantages too. Group mailing can be done for general information. While the feeling is different, the main objective is simply to inform of some event, new idea, etc. It may be more effective if the groups are smaller and grouped for specific purposes. Then you can have better inter-communication within the group. Group mailing cam be sent out via stream. Therefore, only those who are active can receive them.

In using either tool, focus on your objective. Remember to keep your communication current, honest, regular and upbeat. Continue to be an awesome sponsor and success will be yours.

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Individual and group mailings are both worthwhile and useful. Each has its advantages. It is important and worthwhile that the first piece of communication to your affiliates should be individual. New affiliates need to feel welcome and encouraged. They need support that they have made a good decision.

You can prepare your letters and have them saved so that as you receive a new affiliate the letter goes automatically to that individual. In this way, it does not matter if you have
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, my friend.

Yes.

It is worthwhile!

This is the ideal scenario: that you, as an "awesome sponsor", are paying close attention to the sign-up alerts SFI sends out, as soon as a new PSA registers.

Obviously, it is always worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSAs as soon as you get the notification.

SFI is very good at alerting sponsors that they have a new PSA.

Several options are available to take advantage of them

A. The SFI Internal Messaging (SFIIM)

As you may have noticed, the alert mentions the opportunity to chat with your PSA using the SFIIM, the internal chat portal, as they may still be online by the time the alert is sent out.

Any form of positive communication with the new PSA will have a beneficial impact in helping them feel welcome and appreciated.

Within their early hours of joining, they will know that you are ready to help them, assist them, and answer their questions.

This may impact their behavior and motivate them to take SFI seriously, be very active and turn out to be high achievers.

Every sponsor should strive to send such individual welcome letters.

It is the first step of being an "awesome sponsor."

The question is: Is it always possible to send such individual "Welcome letters'?

When your daily PSA sign-ups are relatively low, yes. It is good and highly desirable to do so.

B. The Genealogy "Date Joined" Filter

However, we also know that there are some sponsors who get tens and tens of sign-ups, and few others who get hundreds of sign-ups on a daily basis.

Those very lucky sponsors may not be able to send such individual "Welcome Letters".
Then two alternatives are available:

First: At the end of the day, the sponsor can filter this genealogy and select all the PSAs that have signed-up that day. A welcome letter may then be sent to them. It will still within the 24 hours of sign-up, and the new PSA will still feel welcome.

C. The Next Day "PSA Recap"

Second: SFI sends a PSA recap that lists all the sign-ups of the previous day.
The sponsor can use that list to send a 'welcome letter'. That is also with the first 24 of the sign-up.

In both scenarios First and and Second above, the sponsor has the opportunity to alert the new PSA on the importance of scoring the Fast Track.

D. The PSA/Genealogy Mailer

The third opportunity is the one you mentioned: PSA/Genealogy mailer.
This is a tool that must be used with wisdom. There is a balance to be struck between useful and timely communications versus "too many mailings" which may take away the interest and the keenest for somebody to open the emails they will receive.

If too much emails are being sent, the affiliate may resort to ignoring them.


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Hello, my friend.

Yes.

It is worthwhile!

This is the ideal scenario: that you, as an "awesome sponsor", are paying close attention to the sign-up alerts SFI sends out, as soon as a new PSA registers.

Obviously, it is always worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSAs as soon as you get the notification.

SFI is very good at alerting sponsors that they have a new PSA.

Several options are available to take advantage
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 226 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

It depends on the number of PSA you are signing up daily. If you are like those top enrollers who are receiving hundreds of PSA its quite impossible to send individual welcome letters to all of them.

BUT since most of us are just receiving enrolling few per month then individual welcome letters is advisable. It has a great advantages than group mails.

1. They will feel that someone can help them when they encounter problem.

2. They will feel welcomed and be encouraged to work.

3. They will feel having a friend who can journey with them in every stage of the business.

Having said these it does not mean that you will have totally different individual letter for every PSA. There are part of the letter which are generic, like the features and benefits of SFI and the first action that they should take.

What will make your letter personalized is the salutation which you really call them by name and the first few sentence that is unique to the person. Example is if your new PSA is from India, you may say that India is no.1 in SFI so you hope to see them one of those successful affiliates.

The last part also can be personalized, call them by their name again, like, "Tim, I am very happy to be working with you".

If you are receiving a lot of affiliates everyday and forced to use the group mailings, well use the tool in replacing the salutation with the real name of the person. It will sound like a personal letter.
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It depends on the number of PSA you are signing up daily. If you are like those top enrollers who are receiving hundreds of PSA its quite impossible to send individual welcome letters to all of them.

BUT since most of us are just receiving enrolling few per month then individual welcome letters is advisable. It has a great advantages than group mails.

1. They will feel that someone can help them when they encounter problem.

2. They will feel welcomed and be encouraged
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Caroline's 111 other Ask SC answers

I send individual welcome letters to new PSAs, but I don’t get 100 at a time. I advertise individually and gain individual responses.

If I were to purchase PSAs and have multiple joining on the same day, I think I would send a welcome message through the team mailer and just select all new enrolments for that day.

If you do this, be very careful in writing your message to make it sound like you were writing to one particular person. Always respond individually and quickly to any replies from any of your new PSAs.

If you realise that you are asked similar questions many times over, write answers to these questions and have them saved in your files. You can then quickly pull one up and then modify it as necessary to any particular person.

People do like to feel they are individuals and like to be treated as such. No-one likes to think he is being spoken to by an impersonal unfeeling robot. But it is possible to treat people as individuals and have them feel individual even if you use pre-written answers, especially if they are your own pre-written answers and modified to each individual’s needs.

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I send individual welcome letters to new PSAs, but I don’t get 100 at a time. I advertise individually and gain individual responses.

If I were to purchase PSAs and have multiple joining on the same day, I think I would send a welcome message through the team mailer and just select all new enrolments for that day.

If you do this, be very careful in writing your message to make it sound like you were writing to one particular person. Always respond individually and quickly
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